since i posted jack's 'back to school' pic this week, i figured that it would be great for today's throwback thursday to include one of my own. this one isn't throwing back too far, but long enough, really. it was 8 years ago, my first day of graduate school (read: seminary). it was 2001. september. less than a week before 9/11. i was as nervous as a pimply-faced high school freshman. but it certainly was the beginning of a great journey for me. this picture was taken in the first house shannon and i lived in, a small parsonage that the church affectionately termed "the cottage." shannon made those curtains.
a collection of words about God and life and art and baseball and football and hope and my family and my ministry and music and the immense joy in each moment of all of it. it's a record of being human. welcome.

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mom, yeah. i'm getting old. blech.